Advertising Giants: America’s Amazing Muffler Men
Before Mad Men there were Muffler Men – 20-foot tall fiberglass statues cast in the thousands to advertise roadside businesses from coast to coast. Muffler Men are one of the most ...
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Messages in the Sand: 12 Great Guerrilla Ads at the Beach & the River
The beach is one big billboard for companies looking to surreptitiously market their products, from Game of Thrones to Jim Beam, which would be annoying if most of these guerrilla installations ...
Trumped Up: Stores & Businesses Trading On The Trump Name
An orange by any other name doesn't taste the same, as the owners of these Trump-named but otherwise unaffiliated stores and business can truly attest. Take Trump Tobacco, a Huntington ...
Wet Look: 12 (More) Cool Creative Water Tanks & Towers
Due to their sizes and shapes, water tanks and towers lend themselves to artistic embellishment as these dozen creative examples refreshingly illustrate. A waterpark? In the middle of ...
Unfree Wheeling: Amusingly Surreal Vintage Soviet Auto Ads
The Soviet Union not only manufactured cars, they exported them to buyers charmed (or duped) by some amusingly and bemusingly photographed advertisements. Putin the pedal to the metal ...
Mystery Oreo Vault in NYC Takes You on a Weird Tasty Trip
What’s behind the giant Oreo-shaped vault door mounted to a bright blue garage in midtown Manhattan? Curious passersby who decide to approach and find out for themselves will have the most ...
Brandalism: 600 Fake Ads Call Out Climate Conference Sponsors
In a massive coordinating guerrilla marketing campaign, 82 artists from 19 countries produced and installed 600 convincing false advertisements around Paris, all targeting major polluters and ...
Inner City Visions: 12 Eye-Opening Urban Eye Charts
Have no illusions, these awesome urban optical eye charts test not only your vision but the varied ways in which we visualize the world around us. ...
Sans Ads: See Tokyo Scrubbed Clean of Signs & Advertisements
Tokyo seems inseparable from the banners, billboards, logos, slogans and other flashy neon alerts, except when seen through the lens of this French graphic designer in a startling ...
NO AD Augmented Reality App Replaces Billboards with Art
Subway commuters are inundated with advertisements on virtually every surface they come across along their daily journey, from the stairs leading to each platform to the passenger cars ...
